Corambe

Corambe
Corambe
The crazed nudibranch, Corambe sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Corambidae
Genus: Corambe
Bergh, 1869[1]
Synonyms

Corambella, Doridella, Paracorambe, Suhinia, Quasicorambe, Neocorambe, Gulbinia

Corambe is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in family Corambidae within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea.[2]

Genus Corambe is the type genus of the family Corambidae.

Species

Species within the genus Corambe include:

  • Corambe baratariae (Harry, 1953)
  • Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886
  • Corambe carabola Marcus, 1955
  • Corambe depressa Adams, 1847
  • Corambe fusca Adams, 1847
  • Corambe evelinae Marcus, 1958
  • Corambe lucea Marcus, 1959
  • Corambe obscura (A.E. Verrill, 1870)
  • Corambe pacifica MacFarland & O'Donoghue, 1929
  • Corambe sargassicola Bergh, 1871 (type species)
  • Corambe sp. crazed nudibranch[3]
  • Corambe steinbergae (Lance, 1962) (synonym of Doridella steinbergae (Lance, 1962) )
  • Corambe testudinaria H. Fischer, 1889
  • Corambe thompsoni Millen & Nybakken, 1991 (In 1994 it became a synonym of Psammodoris thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991) [4] and in 1998 synonym of Loy thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991)[5])

References

  • http://www.catalogueoflife.org accessed 25 August 2009
  • Swennen, C. & R. Dekker (1995). "Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), an immigrant in the Netherlands, with a revision of the family Corambidae". Journal of Molluscan 61: 97–107. doi:10.1093/mollus/61.1.97. 
  1. ^ Bergh R. (November 1871) Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-K\oniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, Abhandlungen 21: page 1293.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  3. ^ Gosliner T. M. (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. ISBN 0-930118-13-8
  4. ^ Martynov, A.V. (1994a). "Materials for the revision of nudibranchiate molluscs of the family Corambidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) Taxonomy. Communication 1". Zoologichesky Zhurnal 73 (10): 3–14. 
  5. ^ Vandes, Angel & P. Bouchet (1998). "A blind abyssal Corambidae (Mollusca,Nudibranchia) from the Norwegian Sea, with a reevaluation of the systematics of the family". Sardia 83 (1): 15–20. 

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